PERMFILE54703

• Permit No: C1996083
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 3/23/2004
• Doc Name: Proposed Waste Rock Disposal Area, Cedar Creek Assoc, October 2003
• Section_Exhibit Name: Volume III Exhibit 05 Baseline Vegetation Survey
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

EXHIBIT 5 -VEGETATION
Table of Contents
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List of Tables and Charts
1.0 Introdudion .............................................................................................................................1
1.1 General ..................................................................................................................................1
1.2 Background ............................................................................................................................2
2.0 Sampling Methods ...................................................................................................................3
2.1 Community Type Mapping ..................................................................................................... ..3
2.2 Sample Layout ..................................................................................................................... ..3
2.3 Determination of Ground Cover ............................................................................................. ..5
2.4 Determination of Current Annual Herbaceous Production ........................................................ ..5
2.5 Rare and Endangered Plant Speaes ..........................
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2.6 Sample Adequacy Determinadon ........................................................................................... ..7
3.0 Results .................................................................................................................................... ..8
3.1 Mixed Shrubland - WRDA ...................................................................................................... ..8
3.1.1 Ground Cover .............................................................................................................. ..8
3.1.2 Production .................................................................................................................. ..9
3.2 Juniper Woodland - WRDA .................................................................................................... ..9
3.2.1 Ground Cover .............................................................................................................. ..9
3.2.2 Production .................................................................................................................. ..9
3.3 Mixed Shrubland -Reference Area ......................................................................................... 10
3.3.1 Ground Cover .............................................................................................................. 10
3.3.2 Production .................................................................................................................. 10
3.4 Juniper Woodland -Reference Area ....................................................................................... 10
3.4.1 Ground Cover ......................................................................:....................................... 11
3.4.2 Production .................................................................................................................. 11
4.0 Rare and Endangered Want Spades Inventory ....................................................................12
5.0 Noxious Weeds .......................................................
13
6.0 Discussion & Recommendations for Bond Release Standards ............................................14
7.0 Literature Cited ......................................................................................................................16
In Text Fgures
Figure Vl - Typ'Kal Sampling at a Systematic /Random Sample Site Location ...................................4
Appendix TC - Tables, Charts, and Plates .......................................................... Starting After Page 17